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Ben Vinson
The Johns Hopkins University E-Mail: bvinson3@jhu.edu Office Hours: By appointment only I am a Latin American Historian with a particular interest in race relations, especially the experience of the African Diaspora. While my research focuses on colonial Mexico, I have a broader range of interests that include the 19th and 20th centuries. I am also interested in transnational networks, including the experiences between African-Americans and Latinos(as well as Afro-Latinos). I have written a number of articles and books on these themes, including Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico (Stanford, 2001), Flight: The Story of Virgil Richardson, A Tuskegee Airman in Mexico (Palgrave, 2004), and Afromexico (Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2004). I have forthcoming work appearing on the experience of Afro-Mexicans in North Carolina. However, my current book-length project involves an assessment of the Mexican colonial caste system--particularly the experiences of what I call the 'forgotten castes'-lobos, moriscos, coyotes, and chinos. I am also working on a 2nd edition of Herbert Klein's African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. My teaching interests range broadly as well--encompassing courses on the Latin American colonial experience, family social history, the African Diaspora, and race-relations in Latin America. I received my A.B. degree from Dartmouth College (1992) and PhD from Columbia University (1998). Prior to joining the Hopkins faculty, I taught at Barnard College and Penn State University. I have also held fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the National Humanities Center, the Social Science Research Council, the Universtiy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. |
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